Claude Nicholson

Claude Nicholson (2 July 1898-26 June 1943) was a British Army brigadier during World War II.

Biography
Claude Nicholson was born in London, England in 1898, and he served in the British Army in France, Palestine, India, and Egypt during and after World War I. When World War II started, he was given command of a brigade that was created for service in Norway, but his brigade instead fought in the Battle of France in May 1940. His brigade was besieged by the Germans at Calais, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered Nicholson to hold the Germans back to allow for the nearby Dunkirk evacuation to take place unmolested. Nicholson was not sent any relief, and he was captured by the Germans. Nicholson was sent to POW camps in Salzburg, Hesse, and Rotenburg an der Fulda, and, on 26 June 1943, he threw himself out of a prison window while suffering from depression, killing himself.